Wednesday 5 February 2020

The Statue of the Jade Monkey

The Statue of the Jade Monkey

Loosely based on Spielberg's second, and most violent Indiana Jones movie, this series of games follows a team of armed Archeologists in a chase from China to India, culminating in a joint 

Fight against the Tong

The back alley behind a Shanghai Nightclub.  The Archaeologists have "recovered" the Jade Monkey from its resting place beneath a temple inside China.  The Fiendish Dr Chou and his Red Tong attack seeking the return of their heritage.  A Brawl in the back alley, followed by a hasty journey to the airfield.

Brawl on the Aircraft
The Archaeologists are aboard Lord Randolph's prototype airship, but the Red Tong of Dr Chou are aboard as stowaways.  As the airship travels the Tong rise up, cut holes in the envelope hoping to bring the Airship down and recover the Jade Monkey.

River Pirates and Rafts
The airship has gone down high in the Himalayas.   The Archaeologists use rafts to travel down river into British India.  It's a hazardous business made more difficult by the presence of Dr Chou's River Pirates, seeking to recover the Jade Monkey.  A similar scenario to the Rebels and Patriots rafting game.

Beneath the Maharaja's Palace
After a bizarre Welcome Banquet featuring food that simply isn't Indian, Phall curry and the like, the Jade Monkey has been stolen. The Archaeologists explore the network of tunnels beneath the Maharajah's  Palace of Pancot, in a chase to recover the statue.  They face a battle with Thuggee stranglers sent to kill them. 

The Snakepit and the Shakra tones
The Thuggee have gathered in their great underground chamber, including a snake pit and unlikely open volcanic magma vent.  The Archaeologists must rescue the Jade Monkey, steal/liberate the sacred Shakra stones and escape the Thuggee temple and horde of stranglers.  The Mad Guru monologues as all of this is going on, explaining that the Jade Monkey is a sacred item returned to India.

Escaping through the Mines
The Thuggee are using slave labour to dig a Jade mine.  Dr Chou reappears allied to the Mad Guru.  Waves of Thuggee will chase the Archaeologists through the mines, including an improbable game of snakes and ladders whilst mounted in trundling mine carts.
The mine cart track runs parallel to a snakes and ladders board drawn as the mine.  Figures may fight and shoot as the carts approach each other.  The game represents the progress of the dcarts through the mine, and contains several fire pit endings.

The Battle of the Rope Bridge
The Archaeologists have escaped the mines, with the Thuggee in close pursuit.  They encounter the three Sergeants and a detachment of the Rajputs, and a battle ensues over the rope bridge, with a crocodile infested river far below.  Dr Chou and the Mad Guru will reappear and attempt to cut the rope bridge down, in which case a vertical fight and climb will occur.
The Jade Monkey is sacred to the Rajputs, as the emblem of the Regiment.


The Archaeologists

Lord Randolph Farthingdale, Patron,  Pistoleer, rich dude.
Sword stick, Webley Bulldog 
Dr Howard Parker, rogue archaeologist Enfield revolver and pipe.  Always carries a copy of Harding's "Principles of Archaeology."

Mr Clarence Wiggamore, Valet to his Lordship, Lee Metford Rifle, Webley Service pistol and truncheon. 
Former Constable.
Rick O'Gurka, former Foreign Legion Officer, Rodeo rider and frontier Marshal, and Archaeology student.  Twin Buntline Colt revolvers.  

Lady Vanessa Kensington, Tomb Robber, Cheltenham fencing champion 1875.  RIC Webley revolver, sabre, bodice stilleto. 



The Empire

Sgt Victor MacChesney, The Senior Sergeant.  Sword and Enfield revolver Later retired to become a US Cavalry Sergeant Major
Sgt Archie Leech Cutter
Enfield revolver and pick axe
Retired and changed his name to Cary to became a Manhattan Socialite

Sgt Fairbanks Balantine Jr  
2nd in Seniority, Sword and Enfield revolver,  Retired to become Sinbad the Sailor
Gunga Jim
Water bishti, bugler.
Desperate to become a soldier

Subadar 
Lee Metford rifle, Sword bayonet

Naik
Lee Metford rifle, Sword bayonet


The Thuggee

The Guru
Charismatic.  Cannot be attacked until he attacks you.  Armed only with his hypnotic sexy eyes
Pandu Lal Assassin,
the Guru's second in command
Mughal khinjal Sword,
pickaxe and rifle
Kabul, a Thuggee master named in the script and obviously an Afghan.  Pickaxe and rifle
Sher Afzuli
A Pathan allied with the Thugs
Mughal khinjal Sword, and rifle

The Tang Terror 

Professor Chou en Ginsberg B.A (Failed) the Tang Terror
Armed with a fan and the ability to endlessly monologue
Fah Lo Suee the Professor's man like daughter, armed with a meaty ankle, moustache, tattoos, and the ability to seduce all men
Jack E. Chan, martial Artist agent of the professor.  His very body is a weapon...
The Red Tongs, martial artists with exotic and probably inefficient oriental weapons
    Dim Sum, Number 1 dim son armed with ancient pistol and perplexed facial expressions 
Si Fan Assassins Cult killers dressed as tigermen, armed with metal claws.








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